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I asked the two former finance officials if they had any response to the comments made in reference to them yesterday in the House. They’ve now sent along the following response.
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To date, there are over 100 articles on our blog. The article for Inside Policy brings together observation made in previous blogs – none of which received any reaction from the Government.